Recent content by DeeGee

Very interesting article.

We live in the digital age, our dependency increases daily. Today, O2 goes down, the immediately accessible bus and train timetables are no longer accessible. Tomorrow, services actually dependent on internet/WiFi/Bluetooth will grind to a halt. Aircraft can navigate and land hands-off, but...

Just joining this thread, but admit to not reading everything up to now...but I did pick up the idea that modern beamy boats may have some advantages over older designs. Having been a R36 owner/sailor till health put a stop, I am dumbfounded that an R36 should remain inverted, or have the...

I marked all my cylinders with their tare weight and use some old bathroom scales, semi calibrated, to keep an eye on how the weight is going in. The downward pressure exerted by the filling tube is ignored as it is an extra safety margin. The tare weight is normally, almost unreadably, marked...

Just a little bit of extra info: we now live with a buried cistern of gas, it only gets filled to 85%, the delivery man shrugged his shoulders, explaining that it was for safety reasons. This bears out previous mentions of limiting the fill.

There is a nice looking example of this boat for sale locally. I have no idea of the particular things to look out for on this marque. The plans suggest that the mast step might be a little eccentric, but I may be wrong. I would be v interested in useful comments from those who have or have had...

jdc may well be correct, but I had to take the pipe with a non-return valve in it and drill out the valve. IIRR it was quite easy. Anyway, I have now had occasion to do this refilling a few times with nary a hitch, despite all the doom-sayers. I always do it outdoors and am a non-smoker !!

Last time I used Perfection Plus, I had a problem with small bubbles which I 'sort-of' resolved by following advice on another thread long ago. I have just finished some 5 coats of PP and tried something different this time. I was pretty sure last time that the bubbles were not caused by...

Surely, there has to be a first time? One cannot be an expert without doing something? (Except tennis of course, I watch Wimbledon each year as a tennis expert despite never having played the game, and often wish I could get down there and explain to Andy how he could handle Federer or...

Needing to do this very thing and my search turned up this old thread, with so many names I remember... So, the serious question... how many subscribers, supporting this simple procedure, actually died ?? I suspect and hope - zero. I am really glad to find it, especially since I gave away my...

Well, thanks for the offer - redeems my faith in Scuttlebutt - I am taking mtb up on his offer and have now gone off-piste to pm country.

Just for the information of the unpleasant minority who posted only negative responses here, and to say thanks to the very few supportive and helpful posters --- the final outcome was that Droggie agreed to meet me halfway and gave me a 2014-15 subscription f.o.c. as lustyd put it, I wasn't too...

A French sailing friend asked me if I was familiar with Seagull outboards... I said 'no, why?'. He said that he has a long-shaft Seagull (he thinks 6 hp , can this be true?) which is u/s, and he would like to find somewhere to get parts. Being ignorant of these things, I thought that Seagull's...

@JumbleDuck As you can see from the copy of the contract, the terms allow 'if your computer has been updated or changed...' as long as only two computers have it installed and only one in use at a time. Elsewhere I have made it clear that, as an IT professional, I change my computer or its...

I have posted a link previously http://tinyurl.com/MyTotalTide where you can see the original contract. No such clause or anything like it exists. What you have printed above is from their unilateral declaration of a change to the contract. My beef is with their right vary a contract in this...